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Famous Men Die--Camp Wrecked
Painter Breaks 35 Year Vow
SIR CHARLES MARSTON, famous archaeologist, who has spent a fortune trying to prove the historical accuracy of the Bible, said. recently that there seemed to be a curse on efforts to find evidence about the Scriptures.
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The "very powers of evil," he told A VOW made in anger and kept the Victoria Institute, at Westmins
ter, seemed to be endeavouring to for 35 years was broken thwart further discoveries, recently, when Harry Bloom-
VICTORIA. field's paintings were hung in tending the Lachish expedition in
He was referring to the ill-luck-at-}
Education policy and the improve- the Matthieson Galley, New Palestine, which matie Jmportant dis-ment of the social conditions of the classes are "to" receive Bend-street, for public ex-coveries confirming the Old Testa-labouring"
ment. Its main discovery. Was of the Seychelles 1slands.
special
attention by the Government series of personal letters, actually
The Thirty-five years ago, Harry, a boy written in the days of Jeremiah the just passed out of Westminster School Prophet and dreaming of becoming a great the Lachish expedition-James Les
Charles said: "The lender of painter, quarrelled with his wealthy Sturkey-although in entire sympathy father. He left home, vowing never with the Arob cause in Palestine,
was murdered on January 10, 1938.
hibition.
to return.
To that he added a vow that when he became great his works would not be exhibited in London,
'SHEER VIOLENCE' "The expedition's camp at Lachish bus since been rulded three times and, It is to be feared, has been des- He never his father again. troyed. Again. Sir Henry Wellcome, but a few months ago he met Lady whose munificent support alone Mount Temple, who persuaded him originally made this expedition
Colonial Office is considering
a proposal for the provision of child-
children and parents can benefit from ren's playgrounds and the erection ot community centres, where both a socini atmosphere superior to their
own home conditions.
conan
and
Talks on communal questions, re- creation, wireless programmies sultable rending matter will be pro- vided at these
centres.
to break his second vow and permit/ble, died several years ago. sant holdings and house und garden
100 model houses on reclaimed land The Government also plans to erect and to create a large number of pen-
piots in the country districts. The her to arrange a London exhibition Biblical archaeology
State will provide assistance to the α has also
peasants of his paintings,
in the acquisition and de- mourn the loss
of Professor Langdon, velopment of the land. whose premature death has been Harry Bloomfield gave a grudging another severe blow to Old Testa- INDIA "Yes," then dismissed the matter, re-ent
ment work." fusing to give any co-operation and
Ing.
Charles Marston said after-
upeny way. does ag though
NEW COALFIELD DISCOVERED
was a sort of curse. Starkey's His closest friend, Robert Henri-death was the worst thing of all. He
CALCUTTA. ques, the novelist, said: "When Harry was heart and soul with the Arabs.
Importance is attached to a dis left home he found a room la Paris] It was just violence-sheer senseless covery
of a semin of coul in the which cost him next to nothing, and violence."
United Provinces, about 00 miles James Starkey, forty-six-year-old south of Mirzapur Town. made friends with Sir Alfred Gilbert, | R.A.
lender of Lachish expedition, was This is probably an extension of stopped in his car on a lonely hillside the good-class coal seams which are "Gilbert gave him lessons and in-south of Jerusalem. He was forced supplying most of the fuel to the troduced him to restaurant proprieto alight and ordered to march ahead.
railways from certain districts teer Reserve is being formed in limited to candidates who can confors willing to barter meals for his Two bullets were fired Into his back. in Bengal and Bihar.
now hang in res- veniently undergo evening instruc-sketches. Many
The Luchish Letters-fourd four Ship on Fire in Docks The saving London, the Air Ministry an-tion in London.
taurants around the Place Gaillon. years ago are contemporary corres- of the
British sicamer Magdapur, between orthodox Jews 8,841 tons, when she caught fire in nounce.
Training allowances of is. an hour "He hates selling his pictures and pondence Men Interested in weather forc-for officers and 6d. an hour for other hates showing them to any but his written in the last years of the King- Kidderpore Docka,
Calcutta, is rc- dom of Judah.) casting and
to the ranks, will be paid in respect of even-closes! friends. Its application
garded as a triumph for the Fire He feels genuinely defence services will be able to gaining instruction.
Brigade. Several holes were uncomfortable when people ask to see. knowledge in the section which would Officers will receive a retaining fee his work."
into the deck to reach the seat of the Bre, and 45 lines of hose poured wa- be of great value in time of einer-of £15 at the end of each year of service, when they have been con--
ler Into the hold, whitch gency.
became Candidates for commissions should Armed in their oppointments.
flooded in a couple of hours. Airmen will be paid u bonus of £ have a university degree in physics,
SOUTHERN RHODESIA mathematics, geography, or cognate on satisfactory completion of each subjects, or be senior undergraduates year's service, and will receive a free studying for honours degrees in these Issue of uniform.
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Thanks to his youthful vow and his shyness, England still knows little bul of Harry Bloomfield's work, France and Belgium have recognised
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BEIRA
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The exchange of children between Beira, Portuguese East Africa, and The officer, Lieut. Eugen Wil-Salisbury during the school holidays helm Mahn, died while a has developed considerably, prisoner of war.
At the beginning of the present When Mahn and his sister Elfrida land went to Beira for a month, un- holldays 52 children from Mashona- were children they engaged in D mutual vow never to allow them- Seaside Holiday Fund, and an
der
of the Children's the rived from Belra in Salisbury, where Sarne day 50 Portuguese children ar
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are staying at Rhodes House, Education Department.
selves to be buried apart.
Wur came, and Lieut. Malion, then aged 27, was captured. He was sent to the internment camp at Holyport, near Maidenhead.
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and
There he and a number of others The exchange of visits has done refused to eat, believing that their much to encourage friendly relations food had been poisoned. Thele re-between Southern Rhodesia sistance weakened, they became vle Portuguese East Africa. tims of the 1918 influenza epidemic.
With two other officers Lieut. Mahon was taken to Cliveden, Lord Astor's home, which had been con- verted into a prisoners of war hos- pital. All three died and were
buried in Bray Cemetery.
For 20 years his sister saved un in order that she might redeem the childhood pledge. Then she obtained the British Home a permit from Ofiice.
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NAIROBI,
The Arab show which, with the tive war canoe, is still the princi- a means of communication between the smaller ports of Lake Victorin is to have a rival. There has been built on the lake a schooner of 120 Recently she stood by and wept a tons. the coffin was dug up and the reclusively, apart from the sails, which Local material was used ex- mains were placed in a new
ornamental one which was sealed came from Scotland,
The schooner took two years and
and put in a hearse for the journey seven months to complete. She will to Wusseldorf, where the reinterment carry a crew of 12 African natives.
will take place.
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